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(53,035 posts)chocolatpi
(7,888 posts)Claustrum
(4,845 posts)I guess we will never know the real death toll from this atrocity.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)The Soviet Union lies about the casualties eroded the last reserve of trust the Politburo had. The families knew the truth.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)jmbar2
(4,890 posts)Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)Stick his legs and pelvis into one--still attached to the rest of his body--into one.
Then fire it up.
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)hippywife
(22,767 posts)the Russian people from seeing body bags of their own troops being shipped home.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)but no bodies come home?
hippywife
(22,767 posts)The point is a psychological and political one. Another way to keep unrest among the Russian people as a whole over his actions to as low as possible.
Even here, for two decades there was a ban on photographers being permitted to document the return of our own war dead at Dover AFB for political reasons:
https://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/26/begleiter.dover/index.html
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)Not understanding your response.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)It does that for my subject lines.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,357 posts)the day, saying he was told by House Intelligence Committee member Mac Thornberry that it was the case. There's a video of a prototype being demonstrated in Belarus from that time, which I assume is what the Defense Ministry is referencing. I can't find any reference to actual field use, though.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)So much bs gets generated in wartime.